Create Elevated Shortcut without UAC prompt in Windows 10  

LaUs3r said:

Hi, somehow I cannot get it work to run netsh.exe as a standard user.

My goal:
switch between 2 NICs in my PC - 1 using a VPN connection, the other is connected directly (for gaming). I am currently switching using 2 batch files with the runas /user:administrator command where I have the issue that the script is executed sometimes with a delay of 20-30secs

My steps:
1) As Admin user
- I created a Win10 task "Switch_WAN_to_VPN" following the guide with the following parameters:

• general: use the following user account: standard user (not admin)
• action: cmd.exe /c start "Switch_WAN_to_VPN" "%windir%\system32\netsh.exe" "interface set interface REGULAR enable"

- I tested the task and it works (for the test I put in the general tab the admin account under which the tasks should run)

2) As standard user
- I created a shortcut schtasks /run /tn "Switch_WAN_to_VPN"
- The tasks seems to be executed, but the NICs are not changed.

In order to fix it, I performed the following steps:
(1) I changed the user account under which the tasks should be executed from "standard user" to "admin user".
Then of course I cannot execute the task anymore as standard user (error: access denied) and I need again to use the runas /user:administrator command which gives me the delay.

(2) I changed the command slightly adapting the ":
"%windir%\system32\netsh.exe" "interface set interface REGULAR enable"
"%windir%\system32\netsh.exe interface set interface REGULAR enable"


Any advice?

Hello,

This will not work for a standard user.

You could try the method below, but I believe it no longer works in Windows 10 and Windows 11.

Elevated Program Shortcut - Create for Standard User | Tutorials

Vathanak said:

I need to run USBDeview with extra parameter like this.
"C:\Program Files\usbdeview-x64\USBDeview.exe" /RunAsAdmin /enable "USB\VID_1038&PID_1122\5&24b08b94&0&7"

Then use the tutorial's Option 2 to set this up. Step 8 shows you how to split your syntax between command & arguments.
Not that I understand why you'd need to enable that device so often that setting this up for it is worthwhile.

All the best,
Denis

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Option 1- steps 1-2 - found someone probably tripping up on the 'obvious'.. but unstated.

The downloaded file is .......bat.log
- so the user has to delete '.log' .. could this step be added please? Tks!

dalchina said:

Option 1- steps 1-2 - found someone probably tripping up on the 'obvious'.. but unstated.

The downloaded file is .......bat.log
- so the user has to delete '.log' .. could this step be added please? Tks!

Hey mate,

It's just the Create_an_elevated_shortcut.bat file for me that downloads. It doesn't have a .log extension on it.

Hi Shawn, thanks, now that's just weird- you're right when I look at it carefully that .....bat is the file that is to be downloaded, but the actual file that appears (on my desktop) has .log appended. Which leaves me wondering what does that? (I'm using Firefox).

Tried Edge- Edge doesn't append .log ....

dalchina said:

Hi Shawn, thanks, now that's just weird- you're right when I look at it carefully that .....bat is the file that is to be downloaded, but the actual file that appears (on my desktop) has .log appended. Which leaves me wondering what does that? (I'm using Firefox).

Not sure unless a possible extension in Firefox modified it, or mistakenly changed it in the download prompt.

FF in Safe Mode does this too..